Workforce Development

We help our clients address the skills gap and grow their businesses. The two go hand in hand. Our ”StrategicSkilling” approach provides customized consulting and training services at every stage of the organizational journey from initial strategy and alignment, through organizational capacity assessment, to competency development, management and analytics.

Aligning Organizational Strategy and Culture

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” – Peter M. Drucker

The new world of work means creating a learning, adaptive, flexible organization. An organization where people are fully engaged, using all of their skills and talents, and where they constantly develop new ones. Getting there is hard work. It’s a significant cultural shift for many organizations. Is your organizational culture aligned with strategy and focused on improving people? Our consultants will help you understand where your organization stands, and how that compares to where it says it needs to be, with a prescription for leadership actions that bring culture and strategy into alignment.

Organizational Capacity

“System fails when people with ability don’t have authority and people with authority don’t have ability.” ― Amit Kalantri

What systems does your organization have in place to grow people in support of your organizational purpose? How mature and robust are those systems and processes? Our Human Capital Management assessment looks at processes and practices in four key areas: Developing People, Building Effective Teams, Motivating and Managing Performance, and Shaping the Workforce. These threads are intertwined and interdependent, and are the basis for creating a resilient, agile, adaptable, learning organization.

Not sure where you stand? Let us pinpoint where you are, and help you get to where you need to be

Competency Analysis

“An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it” – Dee Hock

What does competent look like? What are the critical competencies your organization needs to thrive? When is technical mastery not enough? It’s hard to hit the target if you don’t know what you’re aiming at. High performance organizations don’t guess. They know. Not sure? Let us help you clear the fog.

Competency Development

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership” – Harvey S. Firestone

Train twice as fast. At half the cost. On the things that matter most. With measurable results. Impossible? Actually, it’s typical – if you do it right. And we’’ll help you build better teams and a more agile culture while you’re at it.

Performance Analytics

“It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality” – Harold S. Geneen

How effective is your organization in improving people and their performance? Sure, you train – but does it change anything? Does it carry through to the job? Does it really impact the business? Training is expensive – well beyond $150 billion dollars a year gets spent on training every year in North America alone. Make sure you’re investment in people is generating the best returns possible – for the business, and for them – by training with purpose, and then measuring the impact of every training intervention. Not sure how? We can help.v